List of Georgetown University Law Center alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Georgetown University Law Center, the law school of the American Georgetown University, located in Washington, DC. (For a list of notable Georgetown University graduates, see the list of Georgetown University alumni.)

Academia

Ian C. Ballon, LL.M. '88, Professor of Law at Stanford University
Robert J. Cottrol, '84, Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School
Nora Demleitner, LL.M. '94, former Dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law
Noura Erakat, LL.M. 2012, Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law
Allison Garrett, LL.M '91, former Walmart Vice President/Legal Counsel; current president at Emporia State University
E. Joshua Rosenkranz, '86, Founding President of the Brennan Center for Justice (1995 - 2003)

Business

Kary Antholis, '89, President of HBO Miniseries and Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
Denise Bode, LL.M., CEO of the American Wind Energy Association
David G. Bradley, '83, founder of the Advisory Board Company and owner of the Atlantic Media Company
Joe Garagiola, Jr., '75, Senior Vice President for Standards and On-Field Operations for Major League Baseball (2011 – present), Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Arizona Diamondbacks (1997 – 2005)
Scott Ginsburg, '78, Founding Owner of Boardwalk Auto Group, radio broadcasting mogul
Thomas E. Leavey, 1923, co-founder of Farmers Insurance, co-founder of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation
Douglas Leeds, '96, CEO of Ask.com (2010 – present)
Mark Murphy, '88, President and CEO of the Green Bay Packers (2007 – present); former Pro Bowl safety, two-time Super Bowl champion, Washington Redskins
Carmen Policy, '66, President and CEO of the San Francisco 49ers (1991 - 1999), President and CEO of the Cleveland Browns (1999 - 2004)
Thomas Schlafly, '77, President and co-founder of the Saint Louis Brewery
Michael Slive, LL.M. '66, Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference
Van P. Smith, '55, Chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Automobile Association^[1]
Mark Weinberger, LL.M., Chairman and CEO of Ernst & Young LLP 2013 – present, former Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the U.S. Treasury

Government and politics

Federal officials

Horace M. Albright, 1916, Director of the National Park Service (1929 - 1933)
Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, '87, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1994 - 1997)
Robert C. Bonner, '66, Commissioner of the United States Customs and Border Protection (2001 - 2005), Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (1990 - 1993), Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1989), U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California (1984 - 1989)
Bradford P. Campbell, Assistant Secretary of Labor (2007 - 2009)
George Cortelyou, 1895, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1907–1909), U.S. Postmaster General (1905 – 1907), U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor (1903 – 1904)
Darse E. Crandall Jr., '92, Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2015 - present)
John Dean, '65, White House Counsel (1970 - 1973), convicted of involvement in the Watergate Scandal
Charles H. Fahy, 1914, U.S. Solicitor General (1941 - 1945), Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1950 - 1979)
Lee A. Feinstein, U.S. Ambassador to Poland (2009 - 2012), Principal Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State (1995 - 2001)
Douglas Feith, '78, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy (2001 - 2005)
Laurie S. Fulton, '89, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark (2009 - 2013)
Mark Gitenstein, '72, U.S. Ambassador to Romania (2009 - 2012), former Chief Counsel to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary during the Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination
Avril Haines, '01, Deputy National Security Advisor, (2014 - present), former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Stephen Hedger, '09, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs (2015 - present)
Mickey Kantor, '68, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1996 – 1997)
Jacob Lew, '83, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2013 – present), White House Chief of Staff (2012 - 2013), Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2010 - 2012)
Shavit Matias, LL.M. ‘91 Deputy Attorney General of Israel (2004 - 2013); Hoover Institution, Stanford University (2013 – Present)
Gerald S. McGowan, '74, United States Ambassador to Portugal (1997 - 2001)
Beth Nolan, '80, White House Counsel (1999 - 2001), Senior Vice President and General Counsel at George Washington University (2007 – present)
John Podesta, '76, White House Chief of Staff (1998 - 2001), President of Center for American Progress (2001 - 2013)
Michael Powell, '93, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (2001 - 2005)
Jack Quinn, '75, White House Counsel (1995 - 1997)
Francis Rooney, '78, U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See (2005 – 2008)
Kathryn Ruemmler, '96, White House Counsel (2011 - 2014)
Barbara D. Underwood, '69, acting United States Solicitor General (2001), New York Solicitor General (2007 – present)
Christine A. Varney, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division for the Obama Administration and Federal Trade Commissioner for the Clinton Administration

Members of U.S. Congress

Bob Barr, '87, U.S. Representative from Georgia (1995 – 2003), United States Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate (2008)
George A. Bartlett, 1894, U.S. Representative from Nevada (1907 - 1911)
Herbert H. Bateman, '56, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1983 - 2000)
Robert Bauman, '64, U.S. Representative from Maryland (1973 - 1981)
Alan Bible, '34, U.S. Senator from Nevada (1954 - 1974)
Coleman Livingston Blease, 1889, U.S. Senator from South Carolina (1925 - 1931), Governor of South Carolina (1911 - 1915)
J. Caleb Boggs, '37, U.S. Senator from Delaware (1961 – 1973); Governor of Delaware (1953 – 1960); U.S. Representative from Delaware (1947 – 1953)
Bruce Faulkner Caputo, '71, U.S. Representative from New York (1977 - 1979)
Dennis Chavez, '20, U.S. Senator from New Mexico (1935 – 1962)
David Cicilline, '86, U.S. Representative from Rhode Island (2011 – present), first openly gay mayor of a U.S. state capitol (Providence)
Hansen Clarke, '87, U.S. Representative from Michigan (2011–2013)
Charles R. Clason, 1914, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1937 - 1949)
L. Gary Clemente, '31, U.S. Representative from New York (1949 - 1953)
Charles F. Curry, Jr., 1912, U.S. Representative from California (1931 - 1933)
John Delaney, U.S. Representative from Maryland (2013 – present)
John Dingell, '52, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1955 – present)
John J. Douglass, 1896, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1925 - 1933)
Robert Drinan, '50, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1971 - 1973)
Richard Durbin, '69, U.S. Senator from Illinois (1997 – present), Senate Democratic Whip (2005 – present)
John A. Durkin, '65, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (1975 - 1980)
Clarence D. Van Duzer, 1893, U.S. Representative from Nevada (1903 - 1907)
Lane Evans, '78, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1983 – 2007)
Martin Frost, '70, U.S. Representative from Texas (1979 - 2005)
Mazie Hirono, '78, U.S. Senator from Hawaii (2013 – present), U.S. Representative from Hawaii (2007 - 2013), Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (1994 - 2003)
Steny Hoyer, '66, U.S. Representative from Maryland (1981 – present, House Majority Leader (2007 – 2011), House Democratic Whip (2011 - present)
Michael L. Igoe, 1908, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1935), U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (1935 - 1939), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1939 - 1965)
James Robert Jones, '64, U.S. Representative from Oklahoma (1983 - 1987), U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (1993 - 1997)
Bill Jefferson, LL.M. '95, U.S. Representative from Louisiana (1991 - 2009)
Mark Kirk, '92, U.S. Senator from Illinois (2010 – present)
Anne McLane Kuster, '84, U.S. Representative from New Hampshire (2013–present)
John W. Langley, U.S. Representative from Kentucky (1907 - 1926)
Edward L. Leahy, 1908, U.S. Senator (1949 - 1950), Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island (1951 - 1953)
Patrick Leahy, '64, U.S. Senator from Vermont (1975 – present), President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate (2012 – present), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (2007 – present)
George Swinton Legare, 1893, U.S. Representative from South Carolina (1903 - 1913)
Dan Lungren, '71, U.S. Representative from California (2005 - 2013)
George Mitchell, '61, U.S. Senator from Maine (1980 - 1995), Senate Majority Leader (1989 – 1995), United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (1995 - 2001), Chairman of the Board of The Walt Disney Company (2004 - 2006), U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace (2009 - 2011), author of the Mitchell Report on the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2001) and Mitchell Report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball (2007)
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, '97, U.S. Representative from South Dakota (2004 - 2010)
Chris Van Hollen, '90, U.S. Representative from Maryland (2003 – present)
Pete Visclosky, LL.M. '82, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1985 – present)
James H. Webb, '75, U.S. Senator from Virginia (2007 - 2013), U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1987 - 1988), author
Rick White, '80, U.S. Representative from Washington (1995 - 1999)
Frank Wolf, '65, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1981 – 2015)
Albert Wynn, '77, U.S. Representative from Maryland (1993 - 2008)

State and local administration

Jerry Abramson, '71, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (2011 – present), Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky (1986 - 2011)
Sam Arora, '10, Member of the Maryland House of Delegates (2011 - 2014)
Jesus Borja, '74, Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands (1994 – 1998)
Michael N. Castle, '64, Governor of Delaware (1985 - 1992), U.S. Representative from Delaware (1993 – 2011)
David Catania, '94, Member of the D.C. City Council (1997–present)
John Chiang, California State Treasurer (2015–present), California State Controller (2007 – 2015)
Sean Coffey, '87, Candidate for New York State Attorney General in 2010
Peter Tali Coleman, '51, Governor of American Samoa (1956 – 1961, 1978 – 1985, 1989 – 1993)
Barbara Comstock, Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (2010–present), Candidate for Virginia's 10th congressional district in 2014
Mitch Daniels, '79, Governor of Indiana (2005 - 2013), Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2001 - 2003), President of Purdue University (2013 – present)
Christopher Del Sesto, Governor of Rhode Island (1959 - 1961), Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1966 - 1973)
Michael Delaney, '94, New Hampshire Attorney General (2009 - 2013)
Ken Duncan, Master of Laws 1973, Louisiana state treasurer, 1996 to 2000
John J. Easton, Jr., '70, Vermont Attorney General (1981-1985)
Jim Graham, LL.M., Member of the D.C. City Council (1999–present)
David Grosso, '01, Member of the D.C. City Council (2013–present)
Derek Hodge, '71, Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (1987 – 1995)
Brad Hutto, '81, Member of the South Carolina Senate, Candidate for U.S. Senate in 2014
Jeff Johnson, '92, Candidate for Governor of Minnesota in 2014, Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (2001 - 2007)
John Lynch, '84, Governor of New Hampshire (2005 - 2013)
Terry McAuliffe, '84, Governor of Virginia (2014 – present), Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (2001 - 2005)
Jim McGreevey, '81, Governor of New Jersey (2002 - 2004)
Vincent Orange, LL.M. '88, Member of the D.C. City Council (1988–present)
Clay Pell, '08, Candidate for Governor of Rhode Island in 2014
James Patrick Rossiter, 1916, Mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania (1932 – 1936)
Josh Shapiro, '02, Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2005 - 2012)
Don Siegelman, '72, Governor of Alabama (1999 - 2003)
Sheila Simon, '87, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (2011 – present)
John D. Spellman, '53, Governor of Washington (1981 - 1985)
Daniel S. Sullivan, '93, Alaska Attorney General (2009 - 2010)
Cyrus Vance, Jr., '82, New York County District Attorney (2010 – present)
Robert Zirkin, '98, Member of the Maryland State Senate (2007–present)

Other politics

Jack Abramoff, '86, Lobbyist and businessman who was a central figure in a series of high-profile political scandals
Gary Bauer, '73, President of the Family Research Council (1988 - 1999) and conservative activist
Tim Canova. '88, Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern University Law School, Challenger to Debbie Wasserman Schultz for Florida's 23rd congressional district
Brian Concannon, '89, Founding Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
Stephanie Cutter, '97, Political consultant and Deputy Campaign Manager for Barack Obama's 2012 presidential reelection campaign
Sandra Fluke, '12, Women's rights activist
John E. Jackson, 1916, Louisiana Republican Party state chairman, 1929-1934 and national committeeman, 1934-1952; New Orleans lawyer^[2]^[3]
John Sears, '63, Campaign manager for Ronald Reagan in 1976 and 1980
Michael Steele, '91, Chairman of the Republican National Committee (2009 - 2011), Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (2003 - 2007)
Caren Z. Turner, '85, Co-chairwoman of the super PAC Ready for Hillary
Jeff Weaver (politician), '96, Campaign Manager for Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016

Judiciary

Federal court

Jesse Corcoran Adkins, LL.B. 1899, LL.M. 1900, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1930 – 1955)
Thomas L. Ambro, '75, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2000 – present)
Michael M. Anello, '68, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (2008 – present)
Robert Armen, '73, Judge on the United States Tax Court
William G. Bassler, '63, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1991 - 2006)
Walter Bastian, 1913, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1954 - 1975)
Terrence G. Berg, '86, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (2012 – present)
Francisco Besosa, '79, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (2006 – present)
James K. Bredar, '82, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2010 – present)
Lynn J. Bush, '76, Judge on the United States Court of Federal Claims (1998–present)
Richard C. Casey, '58, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1997 - 2007)
Thomas Clary, 1924, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1950 - 1977)
Robert N. Chatigny, '78, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (2004 – present)
David Chávez, 1922, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (1947 – 1950), Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (1960 - 1968)
Pamela K. Chen, '86, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2013 – present)
Carolyn Chiechi, JD '69, LL.M. '71, Judge on the United States Tax Court (1992 - 2007)
Charles N. Clevert, Jr., '72, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (1996 – present)
John David Clifford, Jr., 1913, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine (1947 – 1956), U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine (1933 - 1947)
John O. Colvin, LL.M. '78, Judge on the United States Tax Court (1998–present, Chief Judge 2006 - present)
Patrick Anthony Conmy, '59, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota (1985 – present, Chief Judge 1985 - 1992)
Julian Abele Cook, Jr., '57, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1979 – present, Chief Judge 1989 - 1996)
Virginia M. Hernandez Covington, '80, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (2004 – present)
Ronald Davies, '30, Judge for U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota (1955 - 1985) who while on temporary assignment in Little Rock, Arkansas presided over the Little Rock Integration Crisis in 1957
Robert N. Davis, '78, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (2004 – present)
John T. Elfvin, '47, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York (1974 - 2009), U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York (1972 - 1975)
Walter Heen, '55, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii (1981), U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii
John M. Facciola, '69, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1997 – present)
D. Michael Fisher, '69, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2003 – present), Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1997 - 2003)
Arthur J. Gajarsa, '67, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1997 - 2012)
Marvin J. Garbis, LL.M. '62, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (1989–present)
Ashley Mulgrave Gould, 1884, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1902 - 1921), U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (1901 - 1902)
Thomas Hardiman, '90, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2007 – present)
George J. Hazel, '99, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2014 – present)
Judith C. Herrera, '79, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico (2003 – present)
William Hitz, 1900, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1931 - 1935)
Michael Robert Hogan, '71, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (1991 - 2012, Chief Judge 1995 - 2002)
Thomas F. Hogan, '66, Judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (2009 – present), Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1982 – present, Chief Judge 2001 - 2008)
Ellen Lipton Hollander, '74, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2010 – present)
Jerome A. Holmes, '88, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2006 – present)
Jeffrey R. Howard, '81, Judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (2002 – present)
Brian Anthony Jackson, LL.M. '00, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana (2010 – present)
Kent A. Jordan, '84, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2006 – present)
Norma Johnson, '62, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1980 - 2003, Chief Judge 1997 - 2001), first African-American woman to serve as Chief Judge of a U.S. District Court
Elaine D. Kaplan, '79, Judge on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (2013 – present), acting Director of the U.S Office of Personnel Management (2013)
Richmond Keech, LL.B. 1922, LL.M. 1923, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1947 - 1986, Chief Judge 1966)
Charles B. Kornmann, '62, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, (1995 – present)
Bruce E. Kasold, LL.M. '82, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (2003 – present)
Paul Kilday, 1922, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (1961 – 1968)
Mark R. Kravitz, '75, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (2003 - 2012)
Joseph Normand Laplante, '90, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire (2007–present)
Bolitha James Laws, LL.B. 1913, LL.M. 1914, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1938 - 1958, Chief Judge 1945 - 1958)
Joseph Patrick Lieb, 1924, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (1962 - 1971, Chief Judge 1966 - 1971)
Richard Linn, '69, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2000 – present)
Frank J. Magill, '55, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1986 - 2013), father of Stanford Law School Dean M. Elizabeth Magill
Kiyo A. Matsumoto, '81, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2008 – present)
Roslynn R. Mauskopf, '82, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2007 – present), U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (2002 - 2007), Inspector General of the State of New York (1995 - 2002)
Steven J. McAuliffe, '73, Judge on U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire (1992 – present), widower of astronaut Christa McAuliffe
Joseph McGarraghy, 1921, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1965 - 1975)
M. Margaret McKeown, '75, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1998–present), first female partner at Perkins Coie
Sean J. McLaughlin, '80, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1994 - 2013, Chief Judge 2013), General Counsel and Vice President of the Erie Insurance Group (2013 – present)
Mildred Methvin, '76, United States Magistrate Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, based in Lafayette, 1983 to 2009^[4]
Kimberly Ann Moore, '94, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2006 – present)
Frank Jerome Murray, 1929, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1967 - 1995)
Frank Herbert Norcross, 1894, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada (1928 - 1952), Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada (1904 - 1916)
Daniel William O'Donoghue, LL.B. 1899, LL.M. 1900, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1932 - 1948)
Fred I. Parker, '65, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1994 - 2003)
Jaime Pieras, Jr., '48, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (1982 - 2011)
David Andrew Pine, 1913, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1940 - 1970, Chief Judge 1959 - 1961), U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (1938 - 1940)
E. Barrett Prettyman, 1915, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1945 - 1971, Chief Judge 1958 - 1960)
Robert Renner, '49, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (1980 - 2005), U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota (1969 - 1977)
James L. Robart, '73, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (2004 – present)
K. Gary Sebelius, '74, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (2003 – present), husband of former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services and Governor of Kansas Kathleen Sebellius
Patricia Seitz, '73, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1998–present)
Thomas Michael Shanahan, '59, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska (1993 - 2004), Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court (1983 - 1993)
Edward F. Shea, '70, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington (1997 – present)
Eugene Edward Siler, Jr., LL.M. '64, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1991–present)
John Sirica, 1926, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1957 - 1974, Chief Judge 1971 - 1974), presided over the Watergate trials and named TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1973
John Lewis Smith, Jr., LL.B. '38, LL.M. '39, Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1966 - 1992, Chief Judge 1981 - 1982)
William E. Smith, '87, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, Chief Judge (2013 – present)
Timothy C. Stanceu, '79, Judge on the U.S. Court of International Trade (2003 – present)
George Clinton Sweeney, 1922, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1935 - 1966, Chief Judge 1948 - 1965)
Edward Allen Tamm, '30, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1965 - 1985)
Robert Timlin, '59, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1994 – present)
Roger W. Titus, '66, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2003 – present)
Ricardo M. Urbina, '70, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1994 – 2012)
James A. Walsh, 1928, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (1952 - 1991, Chief Judge 1961 - 1972)
David C. Westenhaver, 1886, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (1917 - 1928)
Ashton Hilliard Williams, 1915, Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina (1952 - 1962)
Douglas P. Woodlock, '75, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, (1986 – present)
Jennifer Guerin Zipps, '90, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (2011 – present)

State court

Richard C. Bosson, '69, Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (2002 – present)
J. J. P. Corrigan, '25, Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1969 - 1976)
Robert E. Davis, '64, Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1993 – present), Chief Justice (2009 - 2010)
Henry P. Hughes, 1927, Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (1948 – 1951)
Stephen P. Lamb, '75, Delaware Court of Chancery Vice Chancellor
Bill Mims, LL.M. '86, Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia (2010 – present), Attorney General of Virginia (2009 - 2010)
Gene Franchini, '60, Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (1990 - 2002, Chief Justice 1997 – 1999)
Rives Kistler, '81, Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court (2003–present), first openly gay state Supreme Court justice in the United States
Vanessa Ruiz, Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (1994 - 2011)
Joseph T. Walsh, '54, Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1985- 2005)
Robert A. Zarnoch, '74, Judge on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals (2008 – present)

Private practice

Robert S. Bennett, '64, Senior Partner at Hogan Lovells who represented Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky hearings
Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr., '65, Chairman of the law firm Patton Boggs
Stephen L. Braga, '81, lawyer known for his representation of Martin Tankleff and the West Memphis Three
Alan Gura, '95, lawyer known for successfully arguing District of Columbia v. Heller
Stephen Halbrook, '78, lawyer known for his litigation on behalf the NRA, including successfully arguing Printz v. United States
Shon Hopwood, LLM '17, known for filing multiple successful petitions for certiorari with the Supreme Court as a jailhouse lawyer in federal prison before obtaining his law degree, criminal justice advocate
Brendan Sullivan, '67, Senior Partner at Williams & Connolly who represented Oliver North during the Iran-Contra affair
Edward Bennett Williams, '44, co-founder of Williams & Connolly; owner and President of the Washington Redskins (1969 - 1979); owner of the Baltimore Orioles (1980 - 1988)

Other

Joan Biskupic, '93, Editor in Charge, Legal Affairs for Reuters; author of several books on the Supreme Court
Joyce Chiang, '95, Immigration and Naturalization Service attorney whose murder drew similarities to the murder of Chandra Levy
James C. Duff, '81, President and CEO of the Newseum and Freedom Forum, Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (2006 - 2011)
Savannah Guthrie, '02, co-anchor of The Today Show on NBC (2012 – present)
Nancy Hogshead-Makar, '97, 1984 Summer Olympics swimming gold medalist and Professor of Law at Florida Coastal School of Law
Herman "Ed" Hollis, 1927, FBI special agent involved in shootouts with John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson
John Luessenhop, director of Takers and Texas Chainsaw 3D
Marilyn Milian, '84, Judge of The People's Court and former Judge on the Miami Circuit Court
Walter Pincus, '01, Emmy, Pulitzer, and Polk award-winning national security journalist for the Washington Post
Greta Van Susteren, JD '79, LL.M. '83, Anchor of On the Record on the Fox News Channel

Also attended

Lyndon B. Johnson, former President of the United States of America, in 1934^[5]
Marjorie Rendell, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1997 – present), in 1971
Ilana Rovner, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1992 – present), in 1964 and 1965
Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, in 1957

Fictional attendees

Olivia Pope, lead character in Scandal
Charlie Young, lead character in The West Wing
Alicia Florrick, lead character in The Good Wife
Will Gardner, supporting character in The Good Wife

References

↑ "Van P. Smith". Businessweek.com.
↑ "Jackson, John Ellett". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
↑ A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Georgetown University. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University. 1914. p. 234. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
↑ "Press Release: Retirement of Judge Mildred Methvin" (PDF). satoriadr.com. July 28, 2009. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
↑ "JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines - Biographical Information". congress.gov.

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